(04-14-2015 02:20 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Fun fact: Besides the eventual replacement Redhawks, other finalists for Miami to replace Redskins were Thunderhawks and Miamis.

The Miami Miami's?

Newberry Indians ---> Wolves

(04-14-2015 03:39 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 02:20 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Fun fact: Besides the eventual replacement Redhawks, other finalists for Miami to replace Redskins were Thunderhawks and Miamis.

The Miami Miami's?

Utah Utes and Illinois Illini (both my alma maters) approve.

(04-14-2015 04:03 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 03:39 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 02:20 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Fun fact: Besides the eventual replacement Redhawks, other finalists for Miami to replace Redskins were Thunderhawks and Miamis.

The Miami Miami's?

Utah Utes and Illinois Illini (both my alma maters) approve.

You have to jazz it up though.
Utah RUNNING Utes
Illinois FIGHTING Illini
Miami MIMING Miamis

(04-14-2015 01:31 PM)bullet Wrote:  I don't think Auburn has ever made up its mind about its mascot. Maybe JR can elighten us. Curt Gowdy used to call them the Plainsmen. Then they are Tigers and War Eagles. Like rock, paper scissors? Plainsmen kill Eagles. Eagles eat tiger cubs. Tigers eat Plainsmen.

We are the Tigers. War Eagle is a battle cry that came from Auburn's first game with Georgia where the Georgia fans included a veteran of Gettysburg who had nursed a young wounded eagle back to health and had kept it much as a falconer would. At the game, and with Georgia leading, the bird got loose from its tether and everyone in attendance started raising a hand to the sky and calling for War Eagle which was the bird name. During the incident Auburn scored twice and won. The following year while trailing Georgia the Auburn students reenacted the previous year's event and while they called for War Eagle Auburn scored again to take the lead and eventually the game. It simply became a tradition after that. The Plainsmen was derived from a poem about the loveliest village on the plain and a writer who called us that helped it to stick. But make no mistake Aubie is a Tiger, we are the Tigers.

I would remind folks that Stanford in the 1970's went by Indians. They were among the first to change names out of sensitivity when they became the Cardinal. Ole Miss is now officially the Black Bears although nobody uses that moniker very much.

Am I the only one who prefers the old names?

I think these changes are just p.c. crap.

(04-14-2015 07:00 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 04:03 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 03:39 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  [quote='Love and Honor' pid='11982016' dateline='1429039236']
Fun fact: Besides the eventual replacement Redhawks, other finalists for Miami to replace Redskins were Thunderhawks and Miamis.

The Miami Miami's?
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Utah Utes and Illinois Illini (both my alma maters) approve.

You have to jazz it up though.
Utah RUNNING Utes
Illinois FIGHTING Illini
Miami MIMING Miamis

It's the other Miami, but The American Basketball Association had a team called the Miami Floridians from 1968 to 1970.

Nothing at all like the Houston Texans.

(04-14-2015 07:23 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  Am I the only one who prefers the old names?

I think these changes are just p.c. crap.

Around AState private vendors sell shirts that say "My Indian name is Red Wolf".

But for the most part our fan base likes Red Wolves much better than they liked Indians (beating TAMU in our first game as Red Wolves didn't hurt)

In the two years after the switch the number of University plates issued by the state with our logo more than doubled because fans liked it better.

To avoid offending we had dumped any sort of cartoon or hostile character logo (Jumping Joe and Runnin Joe)


and replaced them with what we called Letterhead Joe.


Wow that was something you could get behind.

So with a few holdouts our fan base has loved the switch.

During the process the university appointed 11 different committees to represent different university related groups. Red Wolves had been pushed by my website for years as an alternate logo and Red Wolves was the only name every committee endorsed.

To add to the story, the school hired a New York design firm to help in the rebrand, of the names that made it to the end Red Wolves was the one they rated lowest. They rated highest various train themes because we were built next to a railroad. No one who was ever late to class or was woken up early by the &*%$ trains wanted that choice (ie. anyone who attended AState). The chancellor did not like the logos they presented. A Little Rock firm offered to do a design on spec. The chancellor went to the university creative services office and told them if they wanted in, they could submit their own design. Their design was the clear winner and it adapts well to other uses. Now all the major logos associated with the school are student or alumni designed and we like them.

(04-14-2015 01:03 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Help me compile a list. Army just reverted back to "Cadets" from Black Knights.




Some others over the years:

Hofstra: Flying Dutchmen<Pride
Miami University: Redskins<Redhawks
St. John's: Redmen<Red Storm

I know I'm missing a ton, help me out.

Someone needs to take the results from this thread and produce an accurate spreadsheet with citations.

(04-14-2015 01:31 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  FIU
Sunblazers - Golden Panthers - Panthers

What. The. F@#& !!!

(04-14-2015 01:12 PM)prp Wrote:  A few others:

Syracuse: Orangemen->Orange
Hawaii: Rainbow Warriors->Warriors->Rainbow Warriors
William & Mary: Indians->Tribe
Stanford: Indians->Cardinal
Arkansas State: Indians->Red Wolves
Marquette: Warriors->Golden Eagles
UMass: Redmen->Minutemen
Southern Miss: ConfederatesSoutherners->Golden Eagles
Utah: Redskins->Utes
USF: Golden Brahmans->Bulls

USM used to be called the Southerners?

Rutgers was called the Chanticleers until 1955.

(04-14-2015 01:03 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Help me compile a list. Army just reverted back to "Cadets" from Black Knights.

I know I'm missing a ton, help me out.

Which is good, because that's what they are.

(04-14-2015 03:39 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 02:20 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Fun fact: Besides the eventual replacement Redhawks, other finalists for Miami to replace Redskins were Thunderhawks and Miamis.

The Miami Miami's?

Yep. The 'Miamis' wouldn't be an awful name if we were Oxford University or University of Southern Ohio (thankfully we're not the latter), but making that change would be weird and we'd probably have to change it shortly after that since it's still an Indian tribe name in and of itself.

(04-14-2015 07:23 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  Am I the only one who prefers the old names?

I think these changes are just p.c. crap.

Some of the new ones are pretty terrible, yeah. But some have worked out nicely, like in the case of UMass. Ended up with a regionally appropriate and historically significant name out of it.

(04-14-2015 02:00 PM)jaredf29 Wrote:  UCF used to be Florida tech (ftu) citronauts, then the university of central Florida knights of Pegasus, then golden Knights, the it became just UCF Knights in 2007. The brand change was an attempt to make the name more succinct.

I think they (UCF) were the Vultures at one point, as their mascot was "Vincent" the vulture.

(04-16-2015 10:52 AM)NestaKnight1 Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 02:00 PM)jaredf29 Wrote:  UCF used to be Florida tech (ftu) citronauts, then the university of central Florida knights of Pegasus, then golden Knights, the it became just UCF Knights in 2007. The brand change was an attempt to make the name more succinct.

I think they (UCF) were the Vultures at one point, as their mascot was "Vincent" the vulture.

I'm not a UCF grad, but I seem to remember something about the Vulture not being any kind of official mascot, but an allusion to all the turkey buzzards around campus.

(04-16-2015 09:54 AM)e-parade Wrote:  

(04-14-2015 07:23 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  Am I the only one who prefers the old names?

I think these changes are just p.c. crap.

Some of the new ones are pretty terrible, yeah. But some have worked out nicely, like in the case of UMass. Ended up with a regionally appropriate and historically significant name out of it.

I always thought minute man referred to something el--ah, never mind.

East Carolina "Teachers'' then Pirates.